Interview on Newsday - BBC Africa, BBC World Service - about Spies in the Congo.On BBC World Service. Susan served as an advisor and Talking Head on this television programme on British imperial history. But the book also gives space to the stories of idealistic Westerners who supported the agenda of a free and independent continent.

This sensational book is a gripping read, a revelation even to those … who never had any illusions about the crimes committed by the CIA in the name of “freedom and democracy.”’ — Morning StarIn discussing detente in the Reagan/Thatcher/Gorbachev years, Malice skips over an essential motivating geopolitical factor at work in the early 1980s: America was supplying Pershing II nuclear-tipped missiles to NATO to be positioned in West Germany, and Yuri Andropov (briefly General Secretary at the Kremlin from 1982 until 1984) pushed the story that Ronald Reagan intended to launch a nuclear war. In 2016 Williams published Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore that Built the Atomic Bomb. The focus was on Shinkolobwe, the world’s biggest uranium mine, in the Congolese Katanga province. Of crucial geostrategic importance, in the 1940s it supplied the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bombs, which devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Shinkolobwe remained the main resource in the American nuclear arming of the 1950s. White Malice Armstrong was basically a Trojan horse for the CIA … He would have been horrified. Facts, not fiction In connection with the publication of her book, The People's King, Susan was interviewed on radio on the Today Programme, BBC Radio 4; Women’s Hour, Radio 4; local UK radio stations; Gyles Brandreth Show, LBC; and CBC Radio. On television, she was interviewed on BBC Newsnight; Channel 4 News; Sky News; BBC News 24; Canadian Broadcasting (CBC); and Russian television. Paper given at a conference organised in the House of Lords, London, by UNA Westminster on questions relating to Dag Hammarskjöld’s death.

Film rights to Dr Williams's book Who Killed Hammarskjöld? (Hurst/Oxford University Press) have been bought; she serves as historical advisor to the producer. While the complicity of the Belgian state in his assassination has been well-documented by Ludo de Witte, whose 2008 book The Assassination of Lumumba “did not flinch from uncomfortable facts that clearly pointed the finger at the Belgian government’s complicity in Lumumba’s death”, Williams focuses on the shadowy role of the US and others in encouraging Lumumba’s elimination amid fears that the leader was turning towards alliance with the Soviet Union. There’s also some good stuff about MK-ultra, and the post-WW2 politics of Uranium, which centered around the Shinkolobwe mine in the Katanga province of the Congo.Malice then goes on to suggest that Dahl pestered wife Patricia Neal for sex when she was partially paralyzed after suffering a series of strokes and a three-week coma. What he leaves out is that Roald enabled a near-100% recovery by forcing Pat through a rigorous physical therapy protocol at a military base. He also resurrected Pat’s career, getting her roles in films and TV commercials. (Ayn Rand sighting here! Pat’s role in the film of The Fountainhead gives us another opportunity to see the AR bobble-head bounce up again.) Silencing and Lies: The death of Hammarskjöld, Congolese uranium, and the annexation of history', lecture given to the Dag Hammarskjöld Programme, Voksenaasen, Oslo, Norway Neocolonialism takes various forms, including the sponsorship of culture. This study of the CIA during the cold war reveals the story of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a CIA front based in Paris, which was active on five continents, including Africa. Among an astonishing breadth of activities, it subsidised conferences, cultural centres, books and magazines, including Encounter in London. “Soon enough”, exclaimed the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka in disgust, “we would discover that we had been dining, and with relish, with the original of that serpentine incarnation, the devil himself, romping in our postcolonial Garden of Eden and gorging on the fruits of the Tree of Knowledge!”

Africa has become the real battleground and the next field of the big test of strength – not only for the free world and the communist world but for our own country and our Allies who are colonialist powers. It is obvious that U.S. would be worried about increasing Russian influence in Africa, but on occasion, the U.S. also seemed happy enough to push leaders it had already decided were a problem closer to the USSR. When Lumumba travelled to the U.S. in the summer of 1960, to try to enlist U.S. help to get Belgian troops out of Congo, for example, he travelled there in a plane supplied by the USSR. This was not a pro-Russian gesture, but simply the result of the U.S. refusal to make one of their planes available to him. It was nevertheless seized on by the U.S. media as evidence that he was a communist and therefore an enemy of the USA. Similarly, when Nkrumah embarked on a nuclear-power programme for Ghana, he first approached Canada to obtain a reactor. He turned to the USSR only after the U.S. had forced Canada to turn him down.

Then one night late in 2018 after my book Whiteness:The Original Sincame out, he interviewed me for a show he had on Anthony Cumia’s Compound Media network. Throughout the entire interview, he steadfastly denied that white people were getting slammed in the media. Last question he asked me was whether I thought Hitler got a bad rap in the press. I said of course he did. Before I was even given a chance to elaborate, he cut me off, ended the interview, and I never heard from him again. Williams paints an exciting picture of the heady days of independence for Ghana quoting Nkrumah’s speech of “just sixteen words” at its independence ceremony: “At long last the battle has ended and Ghana our beloved country is free for ever.” Sadly Nkrumah’s vision of a United States of Africa was destroyed by the actions of the CIA on behalf of the “other” United States which had, through its defeat of British colonialism, been his early inspiration.

This statement about the death of Patrice Lumumba, the first post-independence Prime Minister of what is known now as the Democratic Republic of Congo, is presented in an academic work. The observation is all the more convincing because it is supported by a solid study. Moreover, this now historical fact illuminates the contradiction between the official rhetoric of the United States of America, overtly in favor of decolonization, and its actual practice. The book also reveals the interaction between US business mining interests and official action to prevent the Soviets from getting their hands on the Congo’s rich uranium mine, which had been used to build the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. As early as 1965, Ghana first President Kwame Nkrumah, in his book Neo-Colonialism, made extensive accusations against the US, without the same evidence but with great lucidity, shortly before his overthrow orchestrated by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). A needed corrective. Hard to explain the Napoleon-love on the Right, other than that words like "... Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation, Allen Lane, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7139-9811-5 – on the founding president of Botswana Williams quotes (p. 77) a high-ranking CIA agent to illustrate the overall Western mindset. He declared in 1957: A colloquium co-organised with Mandy Banton (ICwS) and David Wardrop (UNA Westminster). Speakers included Dr Kenneth Kaunda, First President of Zambia (by video). The Round Table was chaired by Lord (Paul) Boateng, a member of the Rifkind Committee on the future of the ICwS.

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We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment. Prize Recipients". Windham Campbell Prizes 2023. Windham Campbell Prizes . Retrieved 21 April 2023.